Following a current pilot program, Georgetown University will introduce a three-week disability ethics module into “Intro to Ethics” course syllabi. A three-week disability ethics module is being ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University (Japan) have introduced a new philosophical framework—"conditional bad-difference view" (Conditional BDV)—to understanding ethically important features of ...

From the teenage romance between an amputee and an oxygen-tank user in the box-office success The Fault in Our Stars to the conjoined sisters at the circus in the Kennedy Center’s Side Show, ...

Disability is a global reality about which too few give thought until they, a family member, or friend experiences disability first-hand. As a result, people without immediate experience or regular ...

Mariana Perera ’20 is a Fullbright Scholar and Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. How Living with a Family Member with Special ...

Precision medicine research (PMR) is gaining momentum across the health-care landscape in the United States. The 2015 announcement of the Precision Medicine Initiative accelerated this process, making ...

(RNS) — I co-wrote this month’s column with Meghan Schrader, academic enrichment assistant at the E4texas program at the University of Texas at Austin, who has served as an affiliate faculty member in ...

People with developmental disabilities may find it easier to get dental care after a national board changed its ethics policy to be more inclusive. The American Dental Association recently revised its ...

A group of Democratic senators asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to include members with backgrounds in civil rights, medical ethics and disability rights on the agency’s new Digital Health ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University (Japan) have introduced a new philosophical framework—“conditional bad-difference view” (Conditional BDV)—to understanding ethically important features of ...